 |
Achievement (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Achievement'
Articles 11 to 20 of 200:
[Who will be a good physician? Admission procedures for medical and dental students]
30 Jul 2009 
Since 2005, German universities are free to select 60% of their freshmen according to their own admission processes. In 2008, selection of medical students in Germany was mainly based on grades achieved in final school examinations (Abiturnote). ...
rec_pub_19626281-who-good-physician-admission-procedures-medical-dental-students.htm
30 Jul 2009 Informed by a new theoretical framework that assigns a key role to cultural tasks (culturally prescribed means to achieve cultural mandates such as independence and interdependence) in mediating the mutual influences between culture and ...
rec_pub_19634973-a-cultural-task-analysis-implicit-independence-comparing-north.htm
Happiness and unhappiness in east and west: themes and variations.
30 Jul 2009 Cultural folk models of happiness and unhappiness are likely to have important bearings on social cognition and social behavior. At present, however, little is known about the nature of these models. Here, the authors systematically analyzed ...
rec_pub_19653765-happiness-unhappiness-east-west-themes-variations.htm
Mastery of the mind East and West: excellence in being and doing and everyday happiness.
30 Jul 2009 Western psychological research on positive psychology and Buddhism have recently converged in their emphasis on the development of positive states, like states of excellence and everyday happiness. Yet, these traditions differ in their approaches to ...
rec_pub_19743557-mastery-mind-east-west-excellence-doing-everyday-happiness.htm
30 Jul 2009 Exceptional performance is frequently attributed to genetic differences in talent. Since Sir Francis Galton's book, Hereditary Genius, many scientists have cited heritable factors that set limits of performance and only allow some individuals to ...
rec_pub_19743555-toward-science-exceptional-achievement-attaining-superior-performance.htm
Balance across contexts: importance of balanced need satisfaction across various life domains.
30 Jul 2009 Self-determination theory posits that satisfaction of three basic psychological needs-autonomy, competence, and relatedness-are required for psychological well-being, and a recent study showed that the balance in the satisfaction of these three ...
rec_pub_19592677-balance-contexts-importance-balanced-need-satisfaction-various-life.htm
Editorial: metrics and accountability--expectations, evaluations, and thinking big.
30 Jul 2009 
rec_pub_19590064-editorial-metrics-accountability-expectations-evaluations-thinking-big.htm
Examining the role of collaborative assessment in a didactic dental hygiene course.
30 Jul 2009 The purpose of this study was to evaluate a technique known as collaborative assessment considering students' and faculty members' perceptions of the value and utility of this approach. Twenty-eight dental hygiene students took eight individual ...
rec_pub_19648569-examining-role-collaborative-assessment-didactic-dental-hygiene-course.htm
Short-answer examinations improve student performance in an oral and maxillofacial pathology course.
30 Jul 2009 The effect of examination question format on student performance was assessed by investigating three academically comparable second-year dental school classes in an oral and maxillofacial pathology course. One class was given examinations with all ...
rec_pub_19648566-short-answer-examinations-improve-student-performance-oral.htm
Meta-analysis of neurobehavioral outcomes in very preterm and/or very low birth weight children.
25 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: Sequelae of academic underachievement, behavioral problems, and poor executive function (EF) have been extensively reported for very preterm (
Results: [1-10] [11-20] [21-30] [31-40] [41-50] [51-60] [61-70] [71-80] [81-90] [91-100] [101-110] [111-120] [121-130] [131-140] [141-150] [151-160] [161-170] [171-180] [181-190] [191-200]